Agency in Academic Promotion: Self-Oriented and Socially-Oriented Strategies among Australian Academics

Autor/inn/en	Nguyen, Huong Thi Lan; Adi Badiozaman, Ida Fatimawati bt; Ling, Voon Mung
Titel	Agency in Academic Promotion: Self-Oriented and Socially-Oriented Strategies among Australian Academics
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 48 (2023) 11, S.1609-1623 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Nguyen, Huong Thi Lan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2023.2205877
Schlagwörter	College Faculty; Faculty Promotion; Professional Autonomy; Foreign Countries; Career Development; Teacher Attitudes; Role; Models; Academic Rank (Professional); Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Berufsfreiheit; Ausland; Berufsentwicklung; Lehrerverhalten; Rollen; Analogiemodell; Australien
Abstract	Although the nature of the academic profession and related career advancement has been well documented, little empirical evidence has been provided on the professional agency that academics employ to advance from one academic rank to another. Adopting an agency focus, this study therefore investigates what strategies academics adopt when seeking promotion. Through semi-structured interviews with 37 participants from a representative Australian university, the study identifies promotion seeking as a two-stage process involving two clusters of six interrelated strategies. A Framework of Agency in Academic Promotion (FAAP) is proposed, demonstrating how, with motivation to climb the career ladder, academics engage in both self-oriented and socially oriented strategies, initially to 'become promotable' and then to write a promotion application. The study confirms and elaborates the role of professional agency in academic promotion, supports the argument that strategies are an important enabler of agency, and contributes to the scarce empirical literature in this field. Academics and their managers, developers and mentors can use the FAAP model to craft promotion strategies and career development plans. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01